UK Ministers are planning new legislation that could override a key part of last year’s EU withdrawal agreement.
The move could change the nature of new Northern Ireland customs arrangements intended to prevent a return to checks at the border between the North and South. Downing Street said it was a standby plan in case EU-UK trade talks fail. The Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar accused the Prime Minister as ‘saber-rattling’, while Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney predicts we’ll have a “bad or very bad” trade future with the UK from January 1.
On Tuesday’s Morning Focus, Gavin Grace spoke to Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Associate Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, and author of From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland, about the latest Brexit talks.
